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Apr. 30, 2013

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Written by

Walter F. Roche Jr.
| The Tennessean

Tennessee labor officials are shutting down a federally funded rapid response team that had been used to provide quick assistance to employees caught in the midst of mass layoffs across the state.

The elimination of the unit, which had been in operation for about a decade, comes despite the strong protest of some members of a state workforce advisory board. That board had refused to approve the change at a meeting last fall, and charged that the state's last-minute change failed to comply with federal notice requirements.